[may have spoilers] Yomiyama Misaki was a boy, right?

Antijo said:
Just a bad translation. The person who did the subtitles either did not know the story or did not know how to translate these sentences without using he or she.

Kish0 said:
That's what going on on my mind too, after I know that the Misaki from 26 years ago was a boy. I'm looking back to the prologue and I'm confused.

I guess they're just meant to plotwist us viewers that Misaki Mei was the one being talked about.

Dungzo said:
Actually Antijo is right. It's just a mistranslation.

I can see how it would be an easy mistake for people who aren't fluent in Japanese. For the record, I'm talking about ur reaction and not the actual translator because they did a good job.

Romaji of the spoken words from episode 1 in the first 30 seconds of the show when they first referenced to Misaki who died 26 years ago
"Misaki shiteru ka?"
"San nen San kumi, Misaki"
"San kumi ni Sono hito dake?"
"Ni-juu-roku nen hanashi da"
"Souitsu sa ichi nen no Koro ka ninki mono de sa"
"Atama no kou no seikaku yokatta la shi da"
"Dakara seito no sensei no sukari de sa"

Episode english translation via subs goes
"Have you heard of Misaki?"
"She was in the ninth grade, class 3."
"Was there someone named Misaki in class 3?"
"It happened 26 years ago."
"She'd been popular since the seventh grade."
"She was smart, pretty, and had a great personality."
"Both the teachers and students adored her."

In the original Japanese, never once did they use a gendered pronoun dialogue like he, she, him or her. They used a non gendered pronoun when referring to that person. In the English language, the equivalent would be like us using "you" or like saying "that person".

In lines 2, 6 and 7, the original Japanese sentences didn't even use a pronoun at all. In lines 5, they used "Souitsu" which happens to be a non-gendered pronoun.

Misaki is generally used for females but most Japanese names are actually unisex so I can see why all the other translations did it the way they did.